Logo of the United Nations Relief Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East. Photo Credit: UNRWA

The United Nations will discuss revisions to the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) today at the organization headquarters in New York.

The organization has come under criticism from left-and right-wing Jewish groups in Israel, who say UNRWA perpetrates the Palestinian “refugee” issue by granting refugee status to the children and grandchildren of Palestinians who left their homes during Israel’s 1948 War of Independence. No other displaced population enjoys such a broad definition of “refugee,” and no other refugee population has a UN relief organization dedicated specifically to its needs.

In addition, the organization has been accused of refusing solutions for permanent housing for Palestinian refugees in Judea and Samaria and Jordan. Observers say UNRWA schools are a hotbed of anti-Israel incitement and encourage children to retain their allegiance to the right of “return” to the homes their grandparents abandoned as little children.

As a result, UNRWA perpetuates the refugee issue (66 years after the War of Independence it is no longer a “crisis”) and empowers a Middle East culture that encourages dictators to blame Israel for all regional troubles in order to deflect local criticism of their minority rule.

As a result of UNRWA policies and Middle East politics, Palestinians in refugee camps around the Middle East suffer some of the most squalid living conditions in the world.

Monday’s discussion will focus on an initiative by the American Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists, specifically on a proposal to change UNRWA’s definition of refugee. According to the Israel Hayom daily, the group argues that in contrast to other relief organizations that seek to resettle refugees, UNRWA has repeatedly prevented the resettlement of Palestinians. Additionally, while in other organizations the number of refugees is limited to those who fled their countries, UNRWA inflates its numbers by including all the descendants of the original Palestinian refugees from the War of Independence in 1948.

“There is no reason for a fifth-generation descendant, living in Gaza, to be considered by an organization supported by Western countries as a refugee from Palestine,” said former MK Einat Wilf, an activist who supports UNRWA reform.

Irit Kohn, the president of the International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists, concurred: [“UNRWA] prolongs the refugee problem and does not facilitate any solution. Had the considerable funds that have been transferred [to it] been utilized properly, the situation could be totally different,” Israel Hayom reported.

UNRWA and the Nakba

The New York discussion comes on the heels of several embarrassing revelations about UNRWA in recent weeks. Last week, the Algemeiner Journal reported that UNRWA had refused to protest Hamas refusal to purchase vaccines and medicines for health clinics and hospitals in Gaza.

And last week, UNRWA officials attended a Nakba Day celebration in Gaza City dedicated to the supposed “right” of Palestinian refugees to immigrate to Israel. At that ceremony, Palestinian children dedicated themselves to “returning” to long-destroyed villages in Israel.

“The Right of return is not subject to any statute of limitation, as it is a personal right that stems from the sanctity of the private property of the refugee according to which Jews had restored their confiscated properties after the Second World War,” the children said at a press conference at the Ministry of Culture.

“It is an individual and collective right that could not be waived for any reason at any agreement or convention,” they added.

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They don’t want settling, They Want to live out the rest of their “Lives” being Taken Care of.Pumping More of our Tax Moneys to pay for their Blown up Myrtyres.and families.,,,and inventing New Historical Events for their Racist and Antisemitic Education Programs, So they can Again be accepted as honorary members into International programes like UNESCO,,
Next Question?.

Half the world (or more) have imagined Jewish “Protocols of Zion” type plots for years. They want to keep a restraint on Israel via the Arabs and Turks placed there. Blaming the “Palestinians” is a misdirection when it is the West and others behind it. If Israel is freed to completely fulfill its destiny religion in the West will collapse as Christianity will be proven completely false.

Good question! They have not been resettled because the surrounding countries want them there to keep them as unhappy as possible so they will get angry and keep bombing Israel wishing they could drive Israel into the sea!

Even if you think you know about this issue, The Haj by Leon Uris is the book to read. This and Because They Hate by Brigitte Gabriel should be sold as a gift set.

And:

Martin Kramer:
Gaza is a place with no Israeli settlements, from which Israel has totally withdrawn to the 1967 lines, and which nonetheless has become a Hamas terror state. That’s what happens in conditions of Gazafication. So when people say that in a two-state solution, Palestinians would have a "right of return" to the West Bank and not Israel, I do not find that particularly reassuring either. Any influx of Palestinians across the Jordan poses a problem for Israel, and it is naive to dismiss it. I would like to hear how, in a two-state scenario, Gazafication of the West Bank can be prevented. I haven't heard it yet.

Neither have I.

Read The Haj by Leon Uris. And ask these questions:

What year did the nation of Palestine come into existance?
What were its national borders and what year did it cease to exist?
What currency did the nation of Palestine use and why is there no history of it?
Name one leader to the “nation of Palestine” prior to Yasser Arafat.

In a Nutshell: Israel vs. Islamists: Setting the Record Straight by Phyllis Chesler Israel National News December 24, 2013
meforum-org/3704/israel-vs-islamists

UN has the belief that one day they will come and occupy the Holy Land. Forgetting God is in control of everything in this earth and His plans will NEVER change. UN look for settlements of these people so we can have real peace in the Holy Land. Do whatever you do, but God's Word is sealed with His Son's blood.

Would someone please start a petition to the UN to put a stop to this horrendous abuse of funding, to supporting terrorism and perpetuating the incitement of hate and murder of the Israeli (and Jewish) peoples….

We need a peitition to be sent to the UN that calls for the cessation of tax payers money to support this horrendous parasitical Palestinian 'refugee' problem. Why would they want to not be 'supported' by us? 36,000 of them are employed by UNWRHA, and they exist to show the world how terrible the Israelis are for keeping them there, whilst in effect that is where they want to be. And no Arab country wants them either!